What is winter.exe?

winter.exe is usually located in the 'c:\users\%USERNAME%\appdata\roaming\' folder.

Some of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal detected winter.exe.

If you have additional information about the file, please share it with the FreeFixer users by posting a comment at the bottom of this page.

VirusTotal report

17 of the 54 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the winter.exe file. That's a 31% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
Ad-Aware	Trojan.GenericKD.1743440
AntiVir	TR/Dropper.Gen
AVG	Win32/DH{gQqBEkKBE4EPAGIPNQ}
BitDefender	Trojan.GenericKD.1743440
Commtouch	W32/VBTrojan.Downloader.1D!Maxi
Emsisoft	Trojan.GenericKD.1743440 (B)
ESET-NOD32	probably unknown NewHeur_PE
F-Prot	W32/VBTrojan.Downloader.1D!Maxi
GData	Trojan.GenericKD.1743440
Ikarus	Win32.SuspectCrc
Kaspersky	HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic
Kingsoft	Win32.Troj.Undef.(kcloud)
MicroWorld-eScan	Trojan.GenericKD.1743440
Qihoo-360	HEUR/Malware.QVM03.Gen
Symantec	WS.Reputation.1
TrendMicro-HouseCall	Suspicious_GEN.F47V0706
VIPRE	Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT

winter.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove winter.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the winter.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that winter.exe has been successfully removed. Here are the removal instructions in more detail:

1. Download and install FreeFixer: http://www.freefixer.com/download.html
2. Start FreeFixer and press the Start Scan button. The scan will finish in approximately five minutes.

   
3. When the scan is finished, locate winter.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the winter.exe file. Do not check any other file for removal unless you are 100% sure you want to delete it. Tip: Press CTRL-F to open up FreeFixer's search dialog to quickly locate winter.exe in the scan result.

   

   

   c:\users\%USERNAME%\appdata\roaming\winter.exe

   
4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the winter.exe file.

   
5. Restart your computer.
6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If winter.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If winter.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
7. If winter.exe still remains in the scan result, check its checkbox again in the scan result and click Fix.
8. Restart your computer.
9. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. Verify that winter.exe no longer appear in the scan result.

Filename variants

winter.exe may also use other filenames. The most common variants are listed below:

• wintt.exe

Folder name variants

winter.exe may also be located in other folders than c:\users\%USERNAME%\appdata\roaming\. The most common variants are listed below:

• c:\documents and settings\%USERNAME%\application data\

Other files also named winter.exe

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